Organization

Direction d'orchestre

Lawrence Renes

Mise en scène

Paul-Georg Dittrich

Décors

Pia Dederichs

Costumes

Lena Schmid

Video

Konrad Kästner

Lumières

Andreas Grüter

Chorégraphie

Rustam Samedov

Dramaturgie

Svenja Gottsmann

Chanteur

Soprano

Kathrin Zukowski

Donna Clara

Emily Hindrichs

Claudia Rohrbach

Ghita

Basse

Christoph Seidl

Don Estoban

Maria Koroleva

1. camériste

Tinka Pypker

2. camériste

Ténor

Burkhard Fritz

Le Nain

Martin Koch

Luzia Tietze

3. camériste

Oper Köln

Others

Chor der Oper Köln

Orchestra

Gürzenich - Orchester Köln

Der Zwerg -  (Le Nain)

Cologne

Allemagne

Staatenhaus Köln

Saal 2

Der Zwerg (+1 More)

Public

Valide

Happy Birthday! In 2022, the Cologne Opera will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the premiere of Alexander Zemlinsky's opera "The Dwarf". At that time, the one-act play was combined with Stravinsky's character ballet "Petrushka". Now both works are on the program together again. For "Petruschka" the Cologne Opera will be working for the first time with the choreographer Richard Siegal and his company  Richard Siegal / Ballet of Difference at the Cologne Theater .

In the play "The Dwarf" everything revolves around an anniversary, because Princess Donna Clara is celebrating her 18th birthday. The most exciting gift is a live dwarf, who enchants everyone with his singing. He immediately falls in love with the beautiful princess, who, however, plays a cruel game with him. But the dwarf doesn't know about his own ugliness. Seeing himself in the mirror, he collapses dead in despair at his deformity.

In "Petruschka" we are again shown the social mechanisms of exclusion and humiliation: at a fair, a magician brings his puppets to life, including Petrushka, who suffers from the magician and his own ugliness. Only his love for the ballerina gives him comfort. But she rejects the injured Petrushka and a game of love and jealousy unfolds that ends fatally.

Director Paul-Georg Dittrich and choreographer Richard Siegal show the protagonists as a link between the past and the present, as world walkers between 1922 and 2022. The viewers sometimes become party guests or visitors to the fair and are given the opportunity to take part in the action up close.

English

Le Nain by Von Zemlinsky, Du (2022/2022), Dirigé par Paul-Georg Dittrich,, Chef d'orchestre Lawrence Renes, Staatenhaus Köln, Cologne, Allemagne

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